Antonia Walford
Biographic Data
| ID | 587930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonia Walford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Walford |
| SIGNATURE | WALFORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Environmental Alterities
In the context of accelerating environmental crises and exhausted intellectual paradigms, this book asks what comes after 'after nature'. Instead of demanding new models and approaches, it invites its readers to look to the endpoints and failures of what is already known, in order to generate alternative forms of ethical engagement with worlds both on this planet, and beyond it. Drawing together scholarship from across science and technology stud…
Data - ova - gene - data
In this essay, I observe that data is valuable not only for what it is, but also for what it will become: that is, that data is a form of potential. I explore two aspects of this by drawing two comparisons with other forms of potential: ova and genes. First, building on ethnographic fieldwork with environmental scientists and technicians in the Brazilian Amazon, I compare data processing with ova donation in the United Kingdom in order to explore…
Introduction
The world is talking 'data'. The early cross-disciplinary, business-orientated hype around the potential of 'big' data, with its promises of unprecedented insight into social life, has given way. Data now motivates a sweep of dystopian visions, from rampant commodification to the invasion of privacy, political manipulation, and shadowy data doubles. Yet anthropologists have been cautious in taking data itself as their object, even as the social l…
Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies
Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies
This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods, and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas of human expe…
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
Raw Data
This article takes scientific ‘raw data’ as its ethnographic object in order to investigate the co-implication of nature and culture in scientific knowledge practices. The article traces out some of the activities that are involved in producing numerical climate data from the Brazilian Amazon. Although science and technology studies (STS) makes a strong case for associating relationality with certainty, the article argues that a particular form o…
Expansionism, Extremism, and Exceptionalism in Life
This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and how it thinks of life. Physical cosmologists work with inanimate matter that lies at the frontier of existential possibility, positing scales and concepts that seem to negate commonsense notions of life and nonlife. Although a common reaction in anthropology when faced with such infinite, …
Time and the Field
Time and the field
Double standards
Drawing on fieldwork with metrologists from Brazil's Space Institute in the southeast of Brazil, this paper explores the science of measurement and calibration in terms of the relation between examples and exceptions. It argues that in order to understand how examples circulate in metrological practice in the form of versions of an absolute standard for a measurement, it is necessary to take into account how they appear asexceptionsfrom that stan…
Limits and Limitlessness
This article explores some of the ways that time figures in the scientific practices of instrumental micrometeorology and climatic and weather modeling. It draws on ethnographic work done with the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), an international scientific project that aims to assess the role of the Amazon forest in the global carbon cycle and to provide sustainable techniques for the future management of the region…
Data Moves
Drawing on fieldwork with researchers and technicians involved in a scientific project in the Brazilian rainforest, this article explores specific aspects of climate science in the Amazon. It suggests that taking science seriously anthropologically requires an investigation into the relation between endo-anthropology and exo-anthropology. This is done recursively by exploring a particular way in which what is 'inside' and what is 'outside' are ac…
General Urquiza and the Battle of Pavón (1861)
Introduction
The world is talking 'data'. The early cross-disciplinary, business-orientated hype around the potential of 'big' data, with its promises of unprecedented insight into social life, has given way. Data now motivates a sweep of dystopian visions, from rampant commodification to the invasion of privacy, political manipulation, and shadowy data doubles. Yet anthropologists have been cautious in taking data itself as their object, even as the social l…
Double standards
Drawing on fieldwork with metrologists from Brazil's Space Institute in the southeast of Brazil, this paper explores the science of measurement and calibration in terms of the relation between examples and exceptions. It argues that in order to understand how examples circulate in metrological practice in the form of versions of an absolute standard for a measurement, it is necessary to take into account how they appear asexceptionsfrom that stan…
Data Moves
Drawing on fieldwork with researchers and technicians involved in a scientific project in the Brazilian rainforest, this article explores specific aspects of climate science in the Amazon. It suggests that taking science seriously anthropologically requires an investigation into the relation between endo-anthropology and exo-anthropology. This is done recursively by exploring a particular way in which what is 'inside' and what is 'outside' are ac…
Environmental Alterities
In the context of accelerating environmental crises and exhausted intellectual paradigms, this book asks what comes after 'after nature'. Instead of demanding new models and approaches, it invites its readers to look to the endpoints and failures of what is already known, in order to generate alternative forms of ethical engagement with worlds both on this planet, and beyond it. Drawing together scholarship from across science and technology stud…
Data - ova - gene - data
In this essay, I observe that data is valuable not only for what it is, but also for what it will become: that is, that data is a form of potential. I explore two aspects of this by drawing two comparisons with other forms of potential: ova and genes. First, building on ethnographic fieldwork with environmental scientists and technicians in the Brazilian Amazon, I compare data processing with ova donation in the United Kingdom in order to explore…
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
General Urquiza and the Battle of Pavón (1861)
Data Moves
Drawing on fieldwork with researchers and technicians involved in a scientific project in the Brazilian rainforest, this article explores specific aspects of climate science in the Amazon. It suggests that taking science seriously anthropologically requires an investigation into the relation between endo-anthropology and exo-anthropology. This is done recursively by exploring a particular way in which what is 'inside' and what is 'outside' are ac…
Limits and Limitlessness
This article explores some of the ways that time figures in the scientific practices of instrumental micrometeorology and climatic and weather modeling. It draws on ethnographic work done with the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), an international scientific project that aims to assess the role of the Amazon forest in the global carbon cycle and to provide sustainable techniques for the future management of the region…
Time and the Field
Time and the field
Double standards
Drawing on fieldwork with metrologists from Brazil's Space Institute in the southeast of Brazil, this paper explores the science of measurement and calibration in terms of the relation between examples and exceptions. It argues that in order to understand how examples circulate in metrological practice in the form of versions of an absolute standard for a measurement, it is necessary to take into account how they appear asexceptionsfrom that stan…
Raw Data
This article takes scientific ‘raw data’ as its ethnographic object in order to investigate the co-implication of nature and culture in scientific knowledge practices. The article traces out some of the activities that are involved in producing numerical climate data from the Brazilian Amazon. Although science and technology studies (STS) makes a strong case for associating relationality with certainty, the article argues that a particular form o…
Expansionism, Extremism, and Exceptionalism in Life
This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and how it thinks of life. Physical cosmologists work with inanimate matter that lies at the frontier of existential possibility, positing scales and concepts that seem to negate commonsense notions of life and nonlife. Although a common reaction in anthropology when faced with such infinite, …
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies
Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies
This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods, and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas of human expe…
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Environmental Alterities
In the context of accelerating environmental crises and exhausted intellectual paradigms, this book asks what comes after 'after nature'. Instead of demanding new models and approaches, it invites its readers to look to the endpoints and failures of what is already known, in order to generate alternative forms of ethical engagement with worlds both on this planet, and beyond it. Drawing together scholarship from across science and technology stud…
Data - ova - gene - data
In this essay, I observe that data is valuable not only for what it is, but also for what it will become: that is, that data is a form of potential. I explore two aspects of this by drawing two comparisons with other forms of potential: ova and genes. First, building on ethnographic fieldwork with environmental scientists and technicians in the Brazilian Amazon, I compare data processing with ova donation in the United Kingdom in order to explore…
Introduction
The world is talking 'data'. The early cross-disciplinary, business-orientated hype around the potential of 'big' data, with its promises of unprecedented insight into social life, has given way. Data now motivates a sweep of dystopian visions, from rampant commodification to the invasion of privacy, political manipulation, and shadowy data doubles. Yet anthropologists have been cautious in taking data itself as their object, even as the social l…
Sociology (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)